Wear Android: Google brings productivity to smart watch - Total Computer

BACKGROUND – Google recently announced a preview SDK ‘for its new Android wearables, and if we can take seriously anything that seeing videos in two YouTube will Google Now smart watches groundbreaking additions to the wearables market

new software platform called Google Android Wear, and will be used by a number of manufacturers of smart watches that will go. later this year in sales LG’s wearable called G Watch. This is scheduled for the second quarter, and is described by LG as a “low barrier to entry for developers” who “for the best user experience, Google will provide.” Motorola has also announced Google Now watch, called the Moto 360, which has a circular display, and this summer in “different styles” will be available.

Fossil

But the most intriguing Android Wear announcement comes perhaps from Fossil, a great brand for traditional wristwatches. The chief strategy and marketing officer of the company said that Fossil “is still really in the formative research and development is” development of wearables. Despite his cautious words a serious combination of traditional wrist watches and smart watches would be a first.

But the big news was Android Wear, and all the ways it promises to increase. personal productivity In the two videos and the blog post shows how Google Android Google brings Wear Now’s contextual information directly to your wrist

Witness:. A man orders a taxi directly from their smart watch. Another man gets a notification for a meeting – along with the announcement that his colleague will come too late. A surfer gets a warning of jellyfish on her machine, and asks her friends to surf. On another beach And while the video ends a man gets a warning that many Android users are already familiar with, “35 minutes to work until you” while he was in the kitchen pours coffee, all without having to look. At his phone

It is the “Google Now” smart watch dream that Google should definitely going to deliver, and it looks very spectacular. As shown in the video, the user interface does not labor-intensive and menu items. It’s just a simple, clean, Now Google map interface. Appears automatically, and respond to time-and location signals.

Round displays

But I’m not reassured by the fact that the watches in the video are shown with a circular display. No manufacturer still has a circular display produced for the mass market, so the frequent portrayal of these screens in Google’s videos suggest something that is incredibly rare, and perhaps expensive.

Google has confirmed to The Verge that the round Watch the videos of the new Moto 360, and Motorola has have experience with round displays. The Motorola Aura phone, which was sold in 2009 had a round screen with a diameter of 480 pixels. But this handset also took two thousand U.S. dollars. But even if Android Wear only appear on rectangular screens, it would still be the simple Now Google map interface, all existing user interfaces of smart watches obsolete do appear.

Android designer Alex Faaborg explains in one of the two videos Android Wear concept: “We have a completely new user interface designed specifically for this form factor, and it really focuses on speech and contextual information that responds to your environment,” he says. “We have carefully considered how simple this should be it should be very fast, and you should be able to see everything at a glance There are basically only two components:.. Information that are most relevant to you, and the ability to make to be able to talk and be able to give. “quick commands

In Google’s blog post and the Android Wear developer’s notes you can read that Google is about to offer where everything in my fake press release last month Now the Google smart watch asked. Wear the Android interface is to navigate by tapping, easy to wipe, and voice control, and the Google map Now traditions where all Android users are familiar with.

Dictation

Voice control will be directly integrated into apps and services, so you can dictate text messages and “OK Google” you say to look for pedestrian routes, flight times, sports scores, and general information such as how many calories in an avocado. Google’s design guidelines also emphasize the “glance”, and encourage designers to show that fit on a small screen. Extremely short bits of information And if it is necessary to provide more information, the user can get to see. Wipe right for the next “pages”

In her blog post, Google also referred to direct integration with health and fitness apps. Wear as Android would summaries of fitness apps can provide, as well as “real-time speed, distance and time information while running, biking, or walking.”

The preview for developers of the Android SDK’s Wear now available.

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